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How often have you heard tales of Harvard's $5 billion plus endowment? How many companies can you name in which Harvard holds stock? The list has included: General Motors, General Electric, Amoco, Dow Chemical, DuPont, USX and Atlantic Richfield.
Tales from the Admission Office: Inside sources over at Garden Street related this tragic story about the sorry fates of 100 would-be first years. Last Friday, the admission office was all ready to send off its hefty packages telling 1,600 some high school seniors that they were being...
In the wood-paneled dining room of Paris' exclusive Travellers club, the exuberant Count Alexandre de Marenches stands out from the sedate, pinstripe luncheon crowd. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 220 lbs., he would stand out almost anywhere. That can be a problem for a man who has spent...
Of the protagonists in Martin's book, two are doomed; only Ellen discovers a small measure of hope when she nurses a stricken jaguar back to health. In all three of its tales, though, The Great Divorce evocatively humanizes the wild nature that is just beneath the surface of us...
These are old-fashioned tales, resurrecting issues like passivity vs. action and honesty vs. self-delusion, and relying on such time-honored devices as unreliable narrators, characters who turn out to be angels in disguise, and good old melodrama. Echoes of past masters -- Henry James and John O'Hara, for...